Missel Thrush. Storm-cock; Bull- thrush.
Redstart. Fire-tail.
Stonechat and Whinchat. Furze-hacker.
Wheatear. Horse-musher.
Sedge Warbler. Channy ; Cham- chider.
Whitethroat. Nettle-creeper.
Golden-crested Regulus. Thumb-bird ; Golden-cutty.
Blue Tit. Tom-tit; Bee-biter.
Long-tailed Tit. Long-tailed Capon; Bottle-ti.
Pied Wagtail. Molly Wash-dish.
Yellow Wagtail. Yellow Molly.
Meadow Pipit. Titlark; Meadow Lark.
Black-headed Bunting. Male, Black- cap; female, Spear-sparrow.
Chaffinch. Chink'; Chiffey.
Hawfinch. Berry-breaker.
Linnet. Red Linnet or Brown Linnet, according to the sex or season of the year.
Bullfinch. Bullie.
Siskin and Lesser Redpoll. Aber- davine.
This name is applied to both spe- cies, but more generally to the former.
Hooded Crow. Grey-back.
Green Woodpecker. Yajfingale; Wood-knacker.
Spotted Woodpecker. Wood-pie.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Little Wood-pie.
Wryneck Cookoo's-mate; Snake- bird; Little eten bird; Weet- bird ; Barley-bird.
Wreu. Cutty.
Nuthatch. Mud-stopper.
Swift. Screecher ; Black Martin.
Nightjar. Night-hawk; Gnat-haivk.
Pintail. Sea-pheasant.
Pochard. Poker; Bed-headed Curre.
Tufted Duck. Black Curre.
Little Grebe. DabcJiick; Di-dapper.
Guillemot. Spratter.*
Cormorant. Isle-of-Wight Parson.
Tern. Sea~swallow.
—G.B. Corbin (Ringwood, Hants).
Errata.—In my few words on the Worcestershire names of birds, p. 385, for Hazeck read Hazock, and for Spait read Chait.—W.H. Heaton.
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM DEVON AND CORNWALL.
By John Gatcombe.
At midsummer the nesting operations of the Herring Gulls at Wembury were in full swing, and many eggs and young birds in the down might be seen from the summit of the cliffs. J am sorry to say numbers of nests were robbed, and I fear some of the old birds shot, judging from the fresh cartridge-cases which were lying about, and from the dead birds which were constantly picked up alongshore.
This name is often applied to the Red-throated Diver.—Ed.
